The best blog site out there?

I'm hopefully off to Japan for a year soon and really want to do some sort of blog for friends and family while there...so what can people recommend in terms of blog sites? Ease of use is a big factor too, while I'm reasonably au fait with the web I won't really have the time or inclination to put into hefty coding malarky...

Yeah, Blogger's great. Although if you've got a small amount of time and money to spare, you might as well host your own and use something like Pivot or Wordpress. Google is your friend for those, for some reason I can't get to any site outside of EG at the moment.